OSCAR, I PREDICT… (TEN MINUTES BEFORE OSCARS)

Okay, folks, a quick write-up before the Oscars start here in the East Coast around 8:30pm, and the madness from the writers ensues. Here’s a quick list of the nominations and my predictions.

The bold/asterisk is what I want to win, and bold is what I predict will win.

BEST PICTURE:
Babel, The Departed, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, *The Queen

BEST DIRECTOR:
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – Babel, *Martin Scorsese – The Departed, Clint Eastwood – Letters From Iwo Jima, Stephen Frears – The Queen, Paul Greengrass – United 93

BEST ACTOR: Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond, *Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson, Peter O’Toole – Venus, Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness, Forrest Whitaker – Last King Of Scotland

BEST ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz – Volver, Judi Dench – Notes On A Scandal, *Helen Mirren – The Queen, Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada, Kate Winslet – Little Children

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
*Alan Arkin – Little Miss Sunshine, Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children, Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond, Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls, Mark Wahlberg – The Departed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Adriana Barraza – Babel, Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine, Cate Blanchett – Notes of a Scandal, Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls, *Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Babel, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, *Pan’s Labyrinth, The Queen

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Borat, *Children Of Men, The Departed, Little Children, Notes On A Scandal

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
After The Wedding, Days Of Glory (Indigènes), The Lives Of Others, *Pan’s Labyrinth, Water

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Deliver Us From Evil, An Inconvenient Truth, Iraq In Fragments, *Jesus Camp, My Country, My Country

ANIMATED FILM:
Cars, Happy Feet, *Monster House

Deny it all you want, I know you’ll be watching. Adios.